About the Authors

Shilpa Hakre

shakre@hivresearch.org

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dariusz G. Mydlarz

Affiliation Preventive and Occupational Medicine Branch, National Guard Bureau, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Peter Dawson

Affiliation Biostatistics, The EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick J. Danaher

Affiliation Infectious Disease Service, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Philip L. Gould

Affiliation Air Force Medical Support Agency, Defense Health Headquarters, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Catherine T. Witkop

Affiliation Air Force Medical Support Agency, Defense Health Headquarters, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Nelson L. Michael

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sheila A. Peel

Affiliation HIV Diagnostics and Reference Laboratory, United States Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Paul T. Scott

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jason F. Okulicz

Affiliation Infectious Disease Service, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Peter Dawson is employed by Biostatistics, The EMMES Corporation. The HJF contracted the EMMES Corporation to provide data management and analysis support for this body of work; this contract was funded by the cooperative agreement between HJF and the DoD. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM PS JO SP SH. Performed the experiments: SH DM PD PJD PG CW NM SP PS JO. Analyzed the data: PD DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH DM PD PJD PG CW NM SP PS JO. Wrote the paper: SH. Interpreted the data, revised, read, and approved the final manuscript: SH DM PD PJD PG CW NM SP PS JO.